All the western states and territories . red sinners fall like dead men under one powerful sermon, and 1 haveeeen and heard more than live hundred Christians all shovxting aloud the highpraises of God at once; and I will venture to assert that many happy thousandswere awakened and converted to Cod at these camp meetings. Some sinnersmocked, some of the old dry profess«)rs opposed, some of the old starched Presby-terian preachers preached against these exercises, but still the work went on andspread almost in every direction, gathering additional force, until our countryseemed all coming home t
All the western states and territories . red sinners fall like dead men under one powerful sermon, and 1 haveeeen and heard more than live hundred Christians all shovxting aloud the highpraises of God at once; and I will venture to assert that many happy thousandswere awakened and converted to Cod at these camp meetings. Some sinnersmocked, some of the old dry profess«)rs opposed, some of the old starched Presby-terian preachers preached against these exercises, but still the work went on andspread almost in every direction, gathering additional force, until our countryseemed all coming home to God. In this great revival the Jlethodists kept moderately balanced ; for we had ex-cellent preachers to steer the ship or guide the flock. But some of our memliersran wild, and indulged in some extravagancies that were hard to control. ThePresbyterian preachers and members, not being accustomed to much noise orshouting, when they jielded to it went into great extremes and downright wild-ness, to the great injury of the cause of C(A. Daniel Boone, the celebratedpioneer of Kentucky, was born of joytt-i/^ y ^ Eni^lish parentage, in Pennsvlvania,)^frf^-oone was approach-ing the prime of life, that he first penetrated the great Valley of the Mississippi, incompany with others. He had already, as a bold hunter, been within the easternverge of the present Kentucky, but noW he took a long hunt of al)0ut three had made himself familiar with the wilderness, and in 1773, in company withother families, he started with his own to make a settlement on the Kain-tuck-eeRiver. The hostile Indians compelled them to fall back, and Boone resided on theClinch River until 1775, when he went forward an
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